Facebook Researcher Responds To Backlash Against 'Creepy' Mood Manipulation Studyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/adam-kramer-facebook-mood-manipulation-2014-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:37:35 -0500Jillian D'Onfrohttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53c58abf6bb3f79a0f2bfcdbBodaciaTue, 15 Jul 2014 16:10:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53c58abf6bb3f79a0f2bfcdb
Yeah, but I'll bet the Marlboro studies weren't partially funded by the Pentagon's Minerva Initiative program.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b20297ecad044022037bc6JoseyMon, 30 Jun 2014 20:36:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b20297ecad044022037bc6
Sounds like a Nazi Germany propaganda experiment to me. The point isn't that only a few users were effected...its that they would allow it AT ALL. What else are they doing?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b195beeab8eabf44f136d2KhurrumMon, 30 Jun 2014 12:52:14 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b195beeab8eabf44f136d2
The difference here is that unlike many companies, Facebook revealed their research and so got backlash. Realistically, we are hit with people attempting to alter our emotions daily for their own purposes - from big companies to little kids who want to get what they want. Facebook's study at least, isn't self-serving - its science that helps everyone be a little more aware of how the world affects us.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b17c2deab8eac566f136d5SappyMon, 30 Jun 2014 11:03:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b17c2deab8eac566f136d5
Was probably covered by that TOS nobody read when they signed up...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b14cae6bb3f7f22586766dfaux outrageMon, 30 Jun 2014 07:40:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b14cae6bb3f7f22586766d
Imagine the backlash when the users discover they are being fed items intended to manipulate them into desired behaviors including changing thought patterns and inducing them to spend money.
Frank Zappa tried to warn you about 40 years ago...
I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed 'n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
With the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That's right, folks . . .
Don't touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go
I am the slime from your video
Oozin' along on your livin' room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me gohttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b133ddecad04753186766aDaria DykesMon, 30 Jun 2014 05:54:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b133ddecad04753186766a
Never mind the goals or the possible benefits of the research - the creepiest part is that anybody thinks that's the point. Mengele produced benefits from his research too. The problem here is that research was done without informed consent, and that's not okay in the US. As an anthropology grad student I took a few classes in research ethics... this defies all accepted practices. It doesn't matter that we clicked "agree" to their terms of service, their terms of service did not include being experimented on to see what certain stimuli do to our moods. And it would have had to be there to count as informed consent.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b0bcc26bb3f7210d879d27depressionSun, 29 Jun 2014 21:26:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b0bcc26bb3f7210d879d27
Shock ,giant corporation conducts psy tests on its control group....
I guess most people have never heard of Marlboro.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b0bb6ceab8ea521b981c84OK so.Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:20:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53b0bb6ceab8ea521b981c84
Not really. Really not.